11:28 PM,
Feb. 15, 2014

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Erwin Cole traded his New England brogue for a Southern accent when he moved in the early 1960s from Maine to Murfreesboro to attend college at MTSU.

Ten years after the 1965 graduate walked across the stage to receive his diploma, he had launched his own business that built on his experience as a tournament fisherman.

"The key to our success is our ability to design and engineer, custom parts and pioneer state of the art products that meet the high quality expectations of our customers," Cole said about Erwin Cole Enterprises, which manufactures custom parts for boats. ...